Always follow the green marker. They obviously didn't have time to totally redo the personal story quests before the LA changes, but even prior to that, I've had several quest logs that say go "here", but the entry point isn't exactly there. Usually the instance takes place wherever the quest log says, but the green marks are always the entry point (which carry you there).

Cool good to know so used to WoW where quest markers would be wrong and reading quest log was always right that I just assumed the quest log was right here especially since i'd done these quests before and the location really was in the city before.

Was kinda wondering if I was meant to go to lions arch or not, that was the question. One of the 2 things was obviously wrong and was unsure if to follow the green circle or what the quest log says. Spent an hour slugging my way across lion's arch with no pointer to follow before deciding the quest log was what was wrong.

Seems like Anet decided to make city hostile and ignored updating the rest of the game to reflect it except the green quest markers. Turned out it was the green circle in a valley the next zone over.

You don't literaly need to progress level by level to advance your fractal level. While you can group a bunch of friends and start from level 1, it is more beneficial to the LFG community to do solely level 10-19 to level up early. And the reason to that is due to the daily chest reward. You see, level 10-19 actualy gives you a shot for some decent loot like Ascended Rings, as well as Pristine Relics. It benefits you and the group more to do Level 10 with marginaly low Agony Resistance, that to form a level 1-9 fractal.

DC restrictions were also removed. You can DC and die to your hearts content.

So in other words, if your bellow level 10, just do level 10 fractals to advance. If the fractal level is equal or superior to your personal reward level, you will advance a reward level at the end of the fractal.

So can I actually get ascended rings from the 10-19 without being at that point myself if I join a group doing it or just get rubbish the first few times? Also compared to say AC exp mode how hard are 10-19 fractals?